ANNUAL REPORT - Department of Biotechnology

Biotechnology Parks and Incubators
Biotechnology Incubation Centre/Pilot plant
facilities at Kerala
The Biotechnology Incubation Centre (BTIC) in
Kerala is being established in an area of 240 acres at
Kalamassery, Ernakulum Dist., Kochi by the Kerala
Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation
(KINFRA) to promote biotechnology. Since Kerala
has internationally reputed ayurvedic centers, the
Biotech Park would promote small entrepreneurs
and units for traditional medicine, herbs and plant
varieties, spices etc. The incubation center would
help to modernize production technologies and for
extraction and drug formulation by using modern
facilities. It would also support quality assurance of
raw materia and products aimed at value addition.
The BTIC will comprise facilities for tissue culture,
micro-propagation, plant extraction, molecular
biology lab for DNA finger printing, bio-Informatics
centre, quality control lab and patent facilitation cell
etc. The incubator facility would accelerate
commercialization of new technologies, support new
ventures in biotechnology and provide appropriate
linkages to entrepreneurs. The building for housing
the Incubator Facility has been constructed and the
Construction of Biotechnology
Incubation Centre /Pilot plant facilities
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process of procurement of internal utilities has been
initiated.
Biotechnology Incubation Centre, Hyderabad,
Andhra Pradesh
A Biotech Incubation Center has been set up in the
Biotech Park at Shapoorji Pallonji Biotech Park,
Genome Vally, Hyderabad. The incubator facility is
mainly designed for development and scale up of bio
processes and technologies. It will provide research
laboratories, knowledge based service centers and
utility generation facilities. Discussions were held
with entrepreneurs, technocrats and experts from
industry for selection and finalization of various
facilities and equipment to be installed in the different
modules of BTIC. During 2006-2007, DBT provided
support for current good manufacturing practices
(cGMP) compliance for Pilot plant facilities, required
for quality manufacturing and for minimizing or
eliminating contamination. The pre-BTIC Process
Generator (PBPG) component of BTIC was set up at
IICT, Hyderabad as an intermediate scale up facility
and to act as a front end facility to provide lab and
bench scale process technologies for biotech
processes.
Biotechnology Incubation Centre/Pilot plant
facilities at Himachal Pradesh
A Biotechnology Park project at Himachal Pradesh
was sanctioned to the Department of Biotechnology,
Government of Himachal Pradesh, Shimla. The
Government of Himachal Pradesh constituted an
executive committee and Society for Promotion of
Biotechnology and Biobusiness (SPBB) as a nodal
agency for implementing the Biotech Park Project.
Establishment of the Biotechnology Park is under
way and discussions were held for selection of land
and for identification of prospective investors.
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